The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) Project: Considerations from the Library Perspective,

Abstract

In 1992 the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) funded a three year grant to investigate the questions related to large-scale, distributed, digital libraries. The award focused research on Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) and was granted to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and five research Universities. The ensuing collaborative research has focused on a broad spectrum of technical, social, and legal issues, and has encompassed all aspects of a very large, heterogeneous distributed digital library environment: acquisition, storage, organization, search, retrieval, display, use and intellectual property. The initial corpus of this digital library is a coherent digital collection of CS-TRs created at the five participating universities: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, and the Univ. of California at Berkeley. The Corporation for National Research Initiatives serves as a collaborator and agent for the project. As the project comes to a close, accomplishments include: a large digital collection; an exchange format for bibliographic data (RFCl8O7); a distributed, web-based delivery protocol (Dienst); an information awareness service (Sift); an approach to interoperability (Kahn/Wilensky paper); and a web catalog tool (Lycos).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA323886

Entities

People

  • Greg Anderson
  • Rebecca Lasher
  • Vicky Reich

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Department Of Defense
  • Digital Information
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Prototypes
  • Standards
  • Teamwork
  • United States
  • Universities

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.